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I was playing with some of my friends earlier who are enforcers of varying levels and we brought up the fact that there are only 4 shotguns in the entire game at this point. As somebody who appreciates a good variety of weapons in my shooter games, I was wondering why there are so few shotguns in Payday 2.

Do you think that Overkill's going to add more shotguns in future content packs?

Don't get me wrong here. I'm not that upset about the lack of shotguns, but it would be nice if there was a little more weapon diversity to keep things interesting.

Non-enforcers can choose from a wide variety of rifles that have a large selection of customization options. I would argue that the shotguns are far less interesting to customize. You could add a full-auto shotgun and have different ammunition options to spice things up (Slugs & dragon's breath shells). Even some sidegrade weapons would be nice too.

Ammunition options I'll give you but the IZHMA is now full-auto compatible with the free Gage DLC benefits. It would be nice if you could choose slugs over pellets.

The thing about shotguns though is you really can't make a less powerful non-auto version since they need the Reinfeld's DPS to be viable, the IZHMA is already much weaker and inaccurate as all sin, and the Mosconi is pretty much an extreme Reinfeld. Even the Locomotive sidearm is pretty much the Reinfeld again though I think the Mosconi with all its weapon mods would have fit better as a sidearm visually.

The problem would be then it would have to have drastically reduced damage or an even more massive spread to compensate for the increase in DPS. Even still, you'd run into issues with ammo consumption and if you gave it enough rounds for constant bursts of 2-3 shots then why not just use the AK.762 due to the inevitable uselessness of the spread?

edit: actually, the AK.762 already does 40 damage to the IZHMA's 43 so that's treading even worse ground for a faster auto-shotgun.

No, that's understandable. It'd be interesting if they added underside shotgun attachments to low powered AR's like MGO had. Make them terribly short ranged and only fit on the weaker AR's for a reason to use them on non-stealth missions.